I know the books that I need to help me to be wiser than my years and be kinder and more compassionate and more patient than I really am.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

I heard silence, silence infinite as the bottom of the ocean, a silence that sealed.

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

I think the best advice came from Drew Barrymore, about always finding love in everything you do and keeping a positive attitude and being thankful.

The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.

It is amazing how the public steadfastly refuse to attend the third day of a match when so often the last day produces the best and most exciting cricket.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

Men are a hundred times worse than you can imagine. We are thinking the worst, shallowest thoughts, all the time.

You do a job like mine because you love the job, not because it's going to make you famous.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.

What's in your soul is in your soul.